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Fraud prevention actually is a security issue. Not an Internet security issue, so mistakes aren't punished that quickly, but the analogy is still sound.

The problem is, once the government chooses to not close a known loophole, the number of people who exploit it may increase by orders of magnitude. Without a willingness to add the…

* Just within the last 50 years, we've made a ton of progress on this "impossible problem". By any reasonable measure, global poverty has been cut by at least half. Keep in mind th…

In practice, the question is if getting to X+n:Y is more than ten times as expensive as getting to X+(n/2):Y+(n/2), does it still make sense to prioritize the former? This is not a…

Most economists agree that Lee Kuan Yew did a better job at increasing his people's prosperity than almost every other developing-country leader of his era. An increasing number of…

It appears that you consider, among other things, Singapore's rise over the last 50 years to be "evil". This puts you at odds with practically the entire economics profession, and …

In the repeated game of life, you can end up ahead if, by forswearing extreme cruelty toward others even when it's locally "efficient", you significantly reduce the probability of …

Better representations are already used for downstream data analysis and continue to be improved; see e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08452 . However, algorithms for producing varia…

Unfortunately, WW1 indicates that trade is at most secondary in importance in keeping the peace.

The efficient, egalitarian solution to poverty is improvement of the home countries, not open borders. This is most obvious for China; that country has so many people that if one a…

In the US, yes. In China, not so much. For all the correlations which are greatly attenuated in China, it is safe to conclude that inequality is not a significant cause of the corr…

(2007)

I can't believe there is no mention of Ready Player One in this article.

By definition, somebody has to have a most heavily locked door in the world. In your analogy, it's clear to me that the US is better suited for that status than any of the other re…

As for your restatement, it no longer has anything to do with immigration policy, since there are plenty of "high level" Chinese native employees at Chinese companies. I'd also cho…

> On the other hand, what would exit from a country without another country to go to mean? Ordinary self-interest and the existence of >200 independent countries make it very likel…

This has nothing to do with exit, and suggesting otherwise implies bad faith on your part. (The exception is if you've literally never read anything like the remainder of this para…

It's way more asymmetric than that. The US government is in a better position to work for Americans' interests than those of foreigners; the Mexican government has a comparative ad…

I've followed a similar path for the last three years, and it has worked out very well for me so far. I don't even want to think about how low the odds were of getting initial fund…

Although I was able to get around the Great Firewall while living in Shenzhen and Beijing, connection speed/quality was bad enough that more than tripling my rent to live in HK was…

Thanks a lot for this work, btw; I found your labor of division blog posts last year and integrated your code into my permutation generation logic, to very nice effect.

I seriously don't understand why so many people don't habitually use braces there... if (...) { goto fail; } if (...) { goto fail; goto fail; } if (...) { goto fail; } tada, not ac…

(2002)

"If you are writing multithreaded programs, you _will_ have locks, period." Not necessarily. In scientific computing, it is common to encounter "embarrassingly parallel" scenarios …